Executing a system command

[jb]

George Demmy wrote:

> jb <jblazi at hotmail.com> writes:
>> I already looked at os.environ. It contains the variable TEXINPUTS. I
>> hope that this environment is passed on to the system call. How can I
>> find out if there are additional variables I have to set?
>> 
> 
> If you can run your commands successfully at the command line, then
> you just need to make sure that your environments match. They
> should. If the environments match, and you can run your command set at
> the command line successfully, then you've got some other problem that
> you'll have to discover. You might consider exploring a different line
> of reasoning, e.g., os.chdir, doing in python what can be done in
> python, and using os.system for what can only be done outside of
> python. Also, start with trivial cases (e.g., simple documents based
> upon default documentclasses), and work toward the more general and
> complex.

I tried os.system('latex test.tex') and it does not work either.
How can I make sure that the environments are the same?

-- 
Janos Blazi

"Il n'y a guère dans la vie qu'une préoccupation grave: c'est la mort;" 
(Dumas) 



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